Born to Run

Running ultra marathon races is more and more popular every day. There is are a number of amateur runners, most them practice it just for fun and they don't make a living with it. In fact, they spend a lot of money and time on their hobby. They not only wear expensive expecific specific clothes and shoes but also eat any kind special food, such as energic energy bars, isotonic drinks or relaxing gels. Besides, signing up for those trails involves expensive registration fees, as well as trip and acommodations accommodation costs, due to these races take taking place in several parts of the world. They follow specialist foros forums(?) as well as coachers coaches' advice, some even someone has have personal trainners. For this reason, it is stunning and marvellous that a tahumara 22 years old Tarahumara girl, named Maria Lorena Ramirez, has won the ultra trail Cerro Rojo at Puebla (Mexico). It took her 7 hours and she was the best of more than 500 participants. However, instead of wearing sport clothes and running shoes, she wears her usual traditional clothes. No personal website where which registers records achieved. No dedicated practising. No special eating. So, how could she win? Simply, becaause she was born to run. A lesson for all of us.

Thoughts about Europe

Finally we succeeded! There is no Marine le Pen in France, no Gerd Wilders in the Netherlands and even in Germany the apparently unstoppable rise of the far right Movement has stopped after the last regional elections. All in all it sounds like we have saved the Union and could get back to our ordinary daily challenges.

But there are still some urgently thoughts we have to deal with. First and foremost I find it a concerning trend in the western democracy to choose inexperienced persons for political leader positions. The french decision to vote for Emmanuel Macron instead of voting for le Pen was an important signal against the far right movement, but was it a signal in favour of the democracy? Is Macron perhaps the lesser of two evils? For me it feels a bit like that. There is still a crisis in the approval to of the western system, which seems to be perceived as corrupt and far away from the problems of their own citizens.

Another signal in favour of this theory was , from my point of view , the Brexit-Votum vote of the majority of the elderly British People, while the younger Part had been stayed away , tired of participating in their own political system. Even the moment of shock on the next morning couldn't trigger a constantly youth movement. It was just a short hangover and in front of the actually election campaign none of the great parties is still considering a so called exit from Brexit. They are all together pushed in fear of losing their political power. Not a truly convincing behaviour.

And on the continent we are building walls. Metaphorical in using strong and serious words against former friends and members (There would be no cherry picking!) and factual literal in building high fences against refugees. Not a truly convincing behaviour at all!

So, did we really succeed?

Note: Excellent post! Your English is extremely good. I corrected "Brexit-Votum" only because it's not a term I have heard used in English, we've only referred to it as the "Brexit vote" or just simply "Brexit", but I may be wrong. Also you could use factual in the final paragraph, but typically the opposite of metaphorical is "literal". 

Watch your use of adverbs vs adjectives. Adverbs (almost always ending in -ly) describe verbs or adjectives, while adjectives describe nouns.  Because the word "urgent" describes the noun "thoughts" it has to be an adjective, not an adverb. Because "constant" describes the noun "youth movement" it has to be an adjective. If it had been "constantly evolving youth movement" (for example), then you could use the adverb "constantly" because it is describing the adjective "evolving"

Day at the embassy expo.

Today I went to an embassy expo in which, where a lot of different countries could show their folk dances, food, and objects related to their culture, and to talk with locals about their countries. Everything was mostly expensive but I bought Indonesian tofu (which it was really spicy) and Thai tea.

Countries like Austria, Finland, Egypt, Peru, Mexico, China, India and Vietnam had their stands at the expo and it was interesting to find that some mythological creatures from Finnish culture are strangely similar to local indigenous people's mythology.

It was a good experience and I hope they will do it again next time.